Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog- Don't Let Blogger Eat it!

You got a scare Thursday and Friday of last week. You were worried that blogger chomped your posts and comments for good. (And some us did get our posts and comments permanently deleted!) This blogger scare shows that it's a good idea to back up your blog every day just in case. This post will show you how to do just that! Don't worry, it's really easy.

1. Go to the Settings Tab and under Basic Settings the first options include Export blog. Click Export blog.

2. You'll end up at this screen. Click Download Blog.

3. This window will pop up. I chose to open my file with notepad, but you can open it with whatever program you desire. You can also simply save it somewhere safe on your PC from here. click "OK".

4. This is what your blog will look like in notepad. When you import this file, it will import your blog posts exactly as they were. The formatting will be the same, the pictures will be there, even your comments are saved. (Yay!)

5. You need to back up your layout, too. Go to design, then go to Edit HTML. Click "Download Full Template" to download the whole thing. Click "Upload" when you need to upload if you have to upload the layout again.

6. Importing your whole blog will be just as easy, just go to Import blog under basic settings.

Now go forth, and save a copy of your blog to your computer. Store it on a back up drive or two. If you could print it and put it your fireproof safe, then put that safe inside another safe and protect both safes with an impenetrable magic forcefield I'd recommend that, too. But for now, this the safest way to back up your blogger blog that I know of.

Any other blogging tips to share? Questions? Share them in the comments!

33 comments:

Thanks Van, I had no idea about how to do this. Luckily I'd copied the post I was in the process of writing into Word, so still had that, but Blogger did eat most of the entries to my giveaway I'd had so far!

Dhamma: Glad the Octopus made you laugh, I need to make some thrifting comics soon!

I don't remember step-by-step how I set it up. I bought the domain through Godaddy.com and asked them to walk me step-by-step through the process of setting it up on Blogger. Godaddy has great customer service!

thanks for the octopus! lol you're cracking me up. i heard about blogger doing weird things (a whole bunch of tweets about it)... i use wp but same diff... i backup daily and have it emailed to me. but still the thought of losing your blog is not a good one. i like how you gave this little tute.

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